'Our government has created 10 million jobs when the Indian unemployment rate is at a 45-year high.'
Gimmicks such as appointing high-profile brand ambassadors like Sachin Tendulkar will not work.
Around 700 migrant workers, women and children have lost their lives in this reverse migration. But what is happening today with the migrant labour is only a continuation of the policies pursued by the Modi regime during the last six years. It is not for nothing that India was ranked the most dangerous country in the world for women in 2018 by the Thompson Reuters Foundation poll, points out Rashme Sehgal.
Ending open defecation by 2019 will require changing minds, not just allocating money to build latrines for people that will either go unused or not be built at all.
According to the 2011 census, 67 per cent of rural households and 13 per cent of urban households defecate in the open.
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